2005 Tony Awards

Actress Christina Applegate poses with husband Johnathon Schaech as they arrive at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Applegate was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in "Sweet Charity"

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Actress Sandra Oh arrives at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Oh was a presenter at the Tony's ceremony.

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Actor Hank Azaria arrives at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Azaria was nominated in the Leading Actor in a Musical category for his performance in "Monte Python's Spamalot". The award was won by Norbert Leo Butz of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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Actress Erin Dilly arrives at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Dilly was nominated for best leading actress in a musical for her role in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." The award went to Victoria Clark for "The Light in the Piazza."

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David Hyde Pierce of the Broadway musical "Monty Python's Spamalot" arrives at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.

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Actress Ann Hathaway arrives at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.

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Actor James Earl Jones, right, and his wife, Cecilia Hart, arrive at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Jones was nominated for his performance in "On Golden Pond". Bill Irwin of "Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" won the Tony.

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CBS chief Leslie Moonves and his wife, anchor Julie Chen, arrive at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. The show was broadcast live on CBS.

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Billy Crystal and his wife, Janice Crystal, arrive at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Billy Crystal won the Tony for best special theatrical event for "700 Sundays."

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Actress Mary-Louise Parker arrives at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Parker was nominated for best leading actress in a play for her role in "Reckless." Cherry Jones of "Doubt" won the award.

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Actor Billy Cudrup arrives at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Crudup was nominated for his performance in "The Pillowman". The award went to Bill Irwin, "Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

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Actress Angela Bassett arrives at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. She was a presenter at the ceremony.

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Billy Crystal, left, appears with host Hugh Jackman at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005. Crystal won a Tony Award for "Billy Crystal 700 Sundays".

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Jerry Mitchell strikes a pose with his Tony Award for Best Choreography for "La Cage aux Folles" at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.

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Rachel Sheinkin, who wrote the book for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," accepts the Tony Award for best book of a musical at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.

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Playwright John Patrick Shanley, Tony-winning author of the Broadway play "Doubt," and actress Cherry Jones, who won the Tony for best performance by a leading actress in his play, kiss after the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.

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Best leading actors and actresses, from left, Norbert Leo Butz of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," Cherry Jones of "Doubt," Victoria Clark of "The Light in the Piazza," and Bill Irwin of "Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," pose with their Tony Awards after the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.

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Eric Idle, who co-wrote the music and wrote the lyrics for "Monte Python's Spamalot" reacts after the production won the Tony Award for Best Musical at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.

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Producer Martin Richards bites on the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical for "La Cage aux Folles" at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.

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Adriane Lenox, left, poses with her Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play or "Doubt" with director Doug Hughes who won for Best Direction of a Play for "Doubt" at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York, June 5, 2005.